Sager 8790 Bios v. 1.00.10

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Hey guys,
I'm having issues trying update the bios on my 8790.
I've got the update, burnt it to cd, changed the boot order, dos opens up but it doesn't prompt me for anything after running.
messages run through the screen too fast to read, so when I paused them it read the following:

Starting caldera DR-DOS...

EMM386 3.27 copyright (c) 1992, 1998 Caldera, inc all rights reserved
frame=E000 Kb=32768
DPMS 1.44 Copyright (c) 1992, 1997 Caldera, Inc all rights reserved

Oak technology Inc OTI-011 CD-ROM device driver, rev D011V110
(c) copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1993, 1994
Device Name : MSCD001
Number of drive 1

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
Copyright (c) 1976, 1998 CAldera Inc. All rights reserved.

FAT32LFN Driver for DR-DOS. Version 1.200
Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Ahead software and its licensors.

Usage: fat32.exe [-wl]
-wl - without LFN support

Search for USB HDD devices...
Error. USB driver not installed.

No FAT32 volumes found, exiting..
NTFS Filesystem driver for DR-DOS. version 1.200
copyright (c) 2002-2004 Ahead Software and its licensors

Usage: ntfsread.exe [-u]

partition C:\ installed

Search for USB HDD devices...
Error. USB driver not installed.
NWCDEX.EXE version2.81 CD-ROM file handler.
copyright (c) 1992, 1997 caldera inc. all rights reserved.
Drive D: Driver 'MSCD001' unit 0
completed codepage prepare function
completed codepage select function
NLSFUNC R4.00 national language support
copyright (c) 1988,1998 caldera, inc. all rights reserved.

NWCache R1.02 Disk Cache
copyright (c) 1993, 1998 caldera, inc. all rights reserved
copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1992, golden bow systems.

Using DPMS DOS protected mode services

then in a box it has:

Cache size: 7670 KB (XMS)
minimum cache size: 1024 KB
write through drives: A B

current options:
/MLX program is loaded into conventional and XMS memory using DPMS
/BL=16 Lookahead buffer is in conventional memory, size is in KB
/ LEND=ON lend memory to other appplications - 6646 KB available
/DELAY=OFF Write in delay is disabled, caching is write through

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
Copyright (c) 1976, 1998 Caldera, all rights reserved.
[DR-DOS] A:\>

Any ideas? What was supposed to happen?

It looks like to screwed up the bootable CD build. Use Nero and simply burn the image (ISO) provided by Sager and that is all you ned to do. Looking at the EMM and other stuff that comes up, you have used another process and may have addeded the ISO as a Data file rather than an image file.

Initially burnt disk as bootable data disk. Re-burnt disc as image, worked like champ. Thanks!

Sorry if this is a stupid question... I must be slow...I've tried burning this thing twice today, both times it shows as an ISO file on the CD, and I've changed the boot order to use the CD drive, but still the system doesn't seem to use the CD to boot. Nothing new happens. The normal boot with the blue Windows screen to click on the user and open Windows for the user last signed in is what comes up.

Any idea what I'm missing?

Thanks for any advice!

I also need to know what the selection should be when burning with Nero. It is stated to create it as an "image". Which option does that correspond to correspond to on the Nero menu? Sorry my screen is flaking out so I can't go into Nero and see options I'm seeing until I reboot again for the umpteenth millionth time today (20 - 30 some reboots at least today) Think I'm just about ready to just send it back and let Sager deal with it.

Well I finally got the CD to burn right and was able to update the bios successfully. It didn't help the pixel problem so I guess I'm going to have to RMA it after all.

Thanks to all of you who post out here to help the rest of us!